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Bee Hive.

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HORACE GUSHEE .AND JOI-IN G. DAVES, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

BEEHIVE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 25,781, dated October 11, 1859.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HORACE GUSHEE and JOHN G. DAwEs, both of the city and county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented a new and useful -Improvement in Beehives, which we call Grushee and Dawes Improved Bee-Hive; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l, is a perspective view of a beehive with the cover and a part of the combframes removed; Fig. 2, is a vertical section, and Fig. 3, represents a common honeyboard.

A, is a hive of the simplest form, with a movable top and bottom represented by C, and B; D, D, are comb-frames; E, E, are rods upon which the comb-frames slide, being attached thereto by the staples a, a.

I/Vhen the comb-frames are in place the shoulder e, will be under and rest againstI the cleat H, and the heel e, will press against the end of the hive. It will be readily perceived (Fig. 2) that the weight of the comb-frame will be supported by the wire E and staple a, (the staple a', serving also as a guide) and by the pressure of the heel e, against the end of the hive. The

shoulder e, resting against the under part of the cleat H, electually prevents any lateral motion of the comb-frame; the glass Gr, rests upon the cleats H, and is of great advantage in examining the making of the comb, as if it is discovered, by looking through the glass, that the bees are making a crooked comb, a cut orf board may be inserted between the comb-frames, for the purpose of obliging them to straighten their work.

Vhen it is desired to make extra honey, the cover of the hive and the glass should be removed (as seen in Fig. l) and the comlnon honey-board (Fig. 3) be placed upon the cleats H, to receive an extra hive with comb-frames or the common honey boxes.

I/Ve do not claim a hive with movable top and bottom, neither do we claim the combframe, nor the honey-board as they are in common use.

What we claim as an improvement in beehives, and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination of the comb-frames D, rods E, staples a. a, and cleat H, arranged as described, whereby the comb-frames may be readily removed or inserted in the manner described and for the purpose specified.

' HORACE GUSHEE.

JOHN Gr. DAWES. Witnesses:

H. Gr. BLANKMAN, F. J. THIBAULT. 

